{"id":661361,"date":"2026-09-01T17:28:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T17:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=661361"},"modified":"2026-09-01T17:28:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T17:28:35","slug":"jeffries-suddenly-gets-cold-feet-over-russia-sanctions-push-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=661361","title":{"rendered":"Jeffries suddenly gets cold feet over Russia sanctions push"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Democrats have all of a sudden come out AGAINST sanctions on Russia after years of peddling their Russian collusion delusion nonsense.<\/p>\n

Around the start of the month, the Senate passed a sweeping Russia sanctions bill that\u2019d been championed by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bill \u2026 would issue mandatory sanctions not only on Russia\u2019s leadership and energy sector, but also on abetters of Russia\u2019s defense industry and so-called shadow fleet in an effort to curb the flow of cash to Moscow\u2019s war chest,\u201d Politico<\/a> reported at the time.<\/p>\n

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JUST IN: The U.S. Senate advanced Lindsey Graham\u2019s Russia sanctions bill by an 86-12 vote.<\/p>\n

The legislation would impose 100% secondary tariffs on countries that continue buying Russian oil and gas
\nand target Russia\u2019s \u201cshadow fleet\u201d.<\/p>\n

President Zelensky was in the building and\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/xi4jRKCcYI<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) July 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Weeks later, House Democrats now appear to be fighting tooth and nail to stop the bill from becoming law.<\/p>\n

Politico reported on Monday that the bill \u201cis at serious risk of languishing in the House, where it is suffering from significant Democratic opposition.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s their beef? Democrats allegedly fear the bill would give President Donald Trump too much additional tariff power.<\/p>\n

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters on Monday that top Democrats have expressed \u201cstrong opposition\u201d to the bill \u201cbecause it risks providing tariff and sanctions authority to Donald Trump and his administration that we believe they will abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so, I have some serious concerns with the legislation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Listen:<\/p>\n

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Democratic leader @RepJeffries<\/a> (D-NY) on oppositions to the Russia Sanctions bill, championed by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC): \u201cI have serious concerns with the legislation.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/tXLeDJ8lcS<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 CSPAN (@cspan) August 31, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Jeffries and other House Democrats have concerns despite their hero, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, being in full support of the bill.<\/p>\n

The concerns aren\u2019t shared by Democrat Sen. Richard Blumenthal.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a moment of extreme urgency, for the reason that Putin may try to escalate, but also because Putin is on his heels economically,\u201d he told CBS News on Sunday. \u201cAnd this kind of sanctions bill, throttling the flow of revenue to his war machine, could undercut completely his ability to wage this brutal, murderous war.\u201d<\/p>\n

Listen:<\/p>\n

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\"\u2757\"U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal has called on the House of Representatives to promptly pass the bipartisan Sanctions Against Russia and Iran Act of 2026, which the Senate has already approved. According to him, the bill could undermine Putin\u2019s ability to wage war by cutting off\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/zzp8vSFkAf<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 \"\ud83e\ude96\"MilitaryNewsUA\"\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\" (@front_ukrainian) August 31, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, several Democrats from the House and Senate have sent a letter<\/a> to the White House urging the president to impose additional sanctions on Russia without waiting for the added power that the bill would provide.<\/p>\n

\u201cDonald Trump already has ample authority to impose sanctions on the companies, individuals, and vessels propping up a Russian war machine that continues its deadly attacks on Ukraine,\u201d they said. \u201cCongress does not need to greenlight new tariff authority for the President to impose those sanctions on Russia today. Delaying sanctions makes them less effective while the Kremlin continues to expand its schemes to procure foreign technology and funding. Ukrainians need our support now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe urge the President to use his broad, existing sanctions authorities to target the companies, individuals, and vessels that enable Russia\u2019s war machine, including actors operating in or supporting any one of seventeen different sectors of the Russian economy. This is just one way the United States used to regularly sanction all types of targets to degrade Russia\u2019s access to critical supplies and funds it needs to sustain its war on Ukraine,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n

The irony of all this hasn\u2019t escaped critics.<\/p>\n

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They oppose the sanctions on Russia now? Like what are we doing man?<\/p>\n

\u2014 \u2013 (@sjam63) September 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Democrats spent years using the phony Russian collusion delusion hoax and conspiracy theory to paint the president as a secret ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

Yet now that Democrats have the power to empower Trump with the tools needed to truly punish Russia, many of them have suddenly changed their tune.<\/p>\n

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Democrats have all of a sudden come out AGAINST sanctions on Russia after years of peddling their Russian collusion delusion nonsense. Around the start of the month, the Senate passed a sweeping Russia sanctions bill that\u2019d been championed by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham. \u201cThe bill \u2026 would issue mandatory sanctions not only on Russia\u2019s… Continue reading Jeffries suddenly gets cold feet over Russia sanctions push<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":661354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=661361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/661354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}